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Sentences ending with contact

Nothing will bring us into this desirable mutual understanding except sympathy and personal contact. [4]
They carefully guarded their open wounds from any rough and painful contact. [2]
And so in that manner their hands were often and long in contact. [13]
Just a want of human interest; people do not come in contact. [4]
The question was not aimed directly at his host--it was in the nature of a renewed appeal to a tribunal which had been mute, but with which he now seemed vaguely aware of a certain contact. [9]
The blaze of light shone, too, on many a fray, such as flared up in an instant whenever Greek and Roman came into contact. [10]
It manifested itself in his attitude towards every one with whom he came in contact. [4]
For three hours I stood there, trying to imagine what was in the minds of these men with whose bodies I was in such intimate contact. [9]
She had gained a softness of expression, and an ease in conversation, which produced their effect on all with whom she came in contact. [6]

Sentences containing contact two or more times

He had no contact, wished no contact with the outer world, but lived his hard, lonely life by himself, silent, studious-- for now books were a pleasure to him. [11]

More example sentences with the word contact in them

She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
He wants contact with human beings. [6]
The other accidents were produced by dissection, or some other mode of contact with bodies of patients who had died of various affections. [3]
But as the very essence of genius is truthfulness, contact with realities, (which are always ideas behind shows of form or language,) nothing is so contemptible as falsehood and pretence in its eyes. [6]
What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
Emerson inherited the traditions of the Boston pulpit, such as they were, damaged, in the view of the prevailing sects of the country, perhaps by too long contact with the "Sons of Liberty," and their revolutionary notions. [6]
I had come to feeling that I knew most of the respectably dressed people whom I met in the cars, and had been in contact with them at some time or other. [6]
I cannot promise to do more than to select a few of the points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge which present particular interest in the existing state of our physiological acquisitions. [3]
They have nothing to do but to develope enormous calluses at every point of contact with authorship. [6]
Has he striven through long weeping years to find excuses for the lapse of an only brother; and through daily contact with a poor lost profligate, been compelled into a certain familiarity with the vices that his soul abhors? [14]
I propose in this lecture to show you some points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge in several of the branches upon the study of which you are entering. [3]
And we reckon this enlargement of nerve contact somehow a gain. [4]
But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity. [9]
But once told, the new life would no longer stand by itself as the new life, cut off from all contact with the past. [11]
I thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of immediate contact with all the world of yesterday, until I read among the minor items that Patrick Donahue, of the city of New York, died of a sunstroke. [4]
He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met. [2]
How hot must the blood be which boils and foams at the contact of a spark! [10]
He was conscious that here he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, obedient, and insignificant atom. [2]
It was inevitable that Cynthia should be brought into contact with many friends and relations of the family. [9]
Of such delicate texture was the fabric of Janet's dreams that not only sordid reality, but contact with other dreams of a different nature, such as her sister's, often sufficed to dissolve them. [9]
We all have something in our nature that requires contact with the earth. [4]
This would involve some legal proceedings with considerable costs, and also contact with Joel Mazarine, whom he had not yet seen; for Mazarine had come while he was away in England. [11]
There is something so disagreeable in having a personal contact with a publisher. [5]
The artist himself shrank from contact with this overpowering display, and said that he could not endure more than a day or two of it. [4]
She had never really been fond of them: she had never, indeed, been brought much in contact with them. [9]
We've got a profane and mundane creature there at the office who runs us all, and it's shocking merely to see the contact of the tyro natures. [8]
This contact with poverty and coming death was quite in her ordinary experience. [4]
Phelps brought his people to a test of their naturalness and sincerity, tried by contact with the verities of the woods. [4]
By the tenets of the Zoroastrian religion, the elements, Earth, Fire, and Water, are sacred, and must not be contaminated by contact with a dead body. [5]
Yet a kind of romance gilds for me the sober tableland of that cold New England hill where I came in contact with a world so strange to me, and destined to leave such mingled and lasting impressions. [6]
The long strips of it were hung out on poles to dry in the streets, and to get a rich color from the dirt and dust, to say nothing of its contact with the filthy people who were making it. [4]
She involuntarily thought of him as one of those few with whom she had come into personal contact, and in whose weal or woe she had some sympathetic interest. [10]
The Southerners are no more sincere than the Northerners, but they have less reserve, and in the social traits that charm all who come in contact with them, they have an element of immense value in the variety of American life. [4]
I could bear no longer the city, the Club, the office, the daily contact with my associates and clients. [9]
I slowly raised myself toward a sitting posture, and my face came in contact with a clammy hand! [5]
He avoided as much as possible contact with those who knew him. [4]
Nothing could be more interesting than to come into contact with a mind that from infancy onward had dwelt only upon what is noblest in literature, and from which had been excluded all that is enervating and degrading. [4]
It was his misfortune not to have come in contact with men who could have rightly influenced his religious aspirations. [5]
Her opinion of men would have been modified if she had come in contact with Murad Ault. [4]
Which is, that lightning, kept to itself, is quiescent; it is the assaulting contact of the thunderbolt that releases it from captivity, ignites its awful fires, and so produces an instantaneous combustion and explosion which spread disaster and desolation far and wide in the earth. [5]
To those who knew her history, guarded from close contact with anything but the world of ideas, it was very interesting to watch her mental attitude as she was day by day emerging into a knowledge of the actual world and encountering its crosscurrents. [4]
After the first jarring contact with Dryfoos, the editor ceased to feel the disagreeable fact of the old man's mastery of the financial situation. [8]
As it made Jane happy to go among her own people, so it saddened her to come in contact with these Gentiles. [13]
He could resume it now if he chose, for neither that nor any other contact can defile him; but he does not choose. [5]
But he broke it down; broke down, too, the shyness accompanying it, the shyness and solemnity emphasized in them by contact with hardship and poverty, with the stark side of life they faced at home. [9]
But when all is done that can be done by such letters-missive from one class to another, there remains the need of more personal contact, of a human sympathy, diffused and living. [4]
Many who came in much direct contact with him, as Augustus Burlingame the lawyer had done, tried to draw from him all there was to tell about himself; which is a friendly custom of the far West. [11]
First, the garrison in immediate contact with the enemy at the furthest extremity of the Residency position was marched out. [5]
We once came in contact with him in a singular way. [10]
Did she come in contact with any one who had not his price, who was not going or wanting to go in the general current? [4]
Many elements which in a former stratified existence would never have been brought into contact were fusing by the pressure of a purpose, of a great adventure common to us all. [9]
He felt as if he must cleanse himself to his very soul, not only from the dust of many weeks, but from the rebellion and despondency, the ignominy and bitterness, and the contact with vice and degradation. [10]
Leave this silken idleness for the rude contact of war? [5]
And at last I made up my mind to go away, to-day, to a quiet place where I might be alone, and reflect, when by a singular circumstance I was brought into contact with this man, Garvin. [9]
In New York I became contaminated, --the poison of the place, of the people with whom I came in contact, got into my blood. [9]
Samaritan nature is human nature, and human nature remembers contact with the illustrious, always. [5]
As Antaeus renewed his strength by contact with mother earth, so, father do I feel myself grow taller when I only think of her. [10]
If he flattered himself that he had done her a favour, if he entertained the notion that he could presently take advantage of the contact with her now achieved to make unbusinesslike advances--well, he would find out. [9]
Thus she studied him, without permitting him to suspect it, learning his idiosyncrasies, his attitude toward all those with whom daily he came in contact, only to find herself approving. [9]
There Fate brought him into contact with the pedagogue Gruner, a follower of Pestalozzi's method, and this experienced man, after their first conversation, exclaimed: "You must become a schoolmaster! [10]
As for Hodder, he was not only undergoing a certain shock through the sudden contact, at such a moment, with Alison's brother: there was an additional shock that this was Alison's brother and Eldon Parr's son. [9]
A mighty change has taken place in regard to liberty, freedom of personal action, the possibility of coming into contact with varied life and an enlarged participation in the bounties of nature and the inventions of genius. [4]
Yet my experience has not been with these conditions with which Mr. Bentley, with which you have been brought in contact, but with the other side--with luxury. [9]
That these civilizations had more than a surface contact with the interior, we know. [4]
The Page Morgans had been a good deal abroad, and were none the worse Americans for having come in contact with the knowledge that there are other peoples who are reasonably prosperous and happy without any of our advantages. [4]
Two men will go mad together, but there's a saving something in the contact of a man's brain with a woman's. [11]
The chain was given to my great-grandmother by the saintly Theodosius, and rather than defile it by contact with that gift from a villain, I will throw it into the Nile!--You--you, poor, deluded judges--I cannot be wroth with you, but I pity you!--My Hiram . [10]
He was so gentle, and his manners were so pleasing and kindly, whether he was sober or intoxicated, that he made friends of all who came in contact with him. [5]
Though they shrank from overmuch contact with their fellow-beings, for all whom they met they had kind words, if few; and when kind actions were needed, they were not spared, if the sisters at the parsonage could render them. [14]
Ferrol spoke excellent French, and soon found points of pleasant contact with Monsieur Lavilette, who, despite the fact that he had coarsened as the years went on, had still upon him the touch of family tradition, which may become either offensive pride or defensive self-respect. [11]
For everybody soon forgot to remember any contact with him or any incident connected with him. [5]
It was his first real contact with England; for he had not seen London, save at Euston Station and in the north-west district. [11]
And at the first contact with that greater power which he had taught her so confidently to despise, that strength had broken! [9]
In truth, I find by experience, that the untrained eye and vacant mind can inspect it, and learn of it, and judge of it, more clearly and profitably in his books than by personal contact with it. [5]
And I am filled with rage--I can think of no milder word--on coming in contact with the living embodiments of that old creed, who hold its dogmas so precious. [9]
The remarkable tranquillizing effect of the contact of his hand with her forehead looked like an immediate physical action. [6]
The court-artist might easily shrink from coming in contact with the pupil of Moor, who had now lost the sovereign's favor. [10]
He was thus early brought into direct contact with persons of all classes and conditions of life. [4]
But Owens was drowsy and resumed his nap; but only for a minute or two, for presently he turned in his bed, his hand dropped over the side and came in contact with the cold water! [5]
By gardening, I do not mean that insane desire to raise vegetables which some have; but the philosophical occupation of contact with the earth, and companionship with gently growing things and patient processes; that exercise which soothes the spirit, and develops the deltoid muscles. [4]
The more the different members of the family came into contact with other citizens, the more deeply rooted was their terror that the end of all things was at hand. [10]
Even in this desire she was not conventional, and in the few moments of their contact he had developed rather than transformed what she meant by "education. [9]
A fine and delicate print of the lines in the skin results, and is permanent, if it doesn't come in contact with something able to rub it off. [5]
What was this curious attraction that roused the interest of all who came in contact with him? [9]
Genuine and remarkable cures have been achieved through contact with the relics of a saint. [5]
Indeed, the ugly creature contrived by some means or other--whether by his ugliness or his ferocity or his natural cunning is no great matter--to impress with a wholesome fear of his anger, most of those with whom he was brought into daily contact and communication. [12]
Strong faith alone could have withstood the continued contact with such a determined fatalism as Aunt Mary's, and yet it is interesting to note that Honora's belief in her providence never wavered. [9]
She wished she could have seen him; the slightest, the most momentary, contact with such a spirit would have ennobled her own character and made ignoble thoughts and ignoble acts thereafter impossible to her forever. [5]
She came in contact with a great deal of life. [4]
It was by constant contact and conflict with these that Lincoln acquired professional strength and skill. [7]
A college periodical, conducted by friends of mine, still undergraduates, tempted me into print, and there is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the young author through mental contact with type-metal. [3]
Unconsciously, when we come in contact with the great of character, we mould our minds to their qualities. [9]
My profession has brought me in such close contact with it that I rebelled at last, and came out here very suddenly, just to get away from it in the mass. [9]
The troops of both armies will refrain from coming in contact with each other; and to this end the commander of the army of Texas will be careful not to approach within a shorter distance than five leagues. [7]
There never has been a President in such constant and active contact with the public opinion of the country, as there never has been a President who, while at the head of the government, remained so near to the people. [7]
It must not be supposed from what she said that Mrs. Mavick stood in fear of her daughter, but it was only natural that for a woman of the world the daily contact of a pure mind should be at times inconvenient. [4]
There he would be in contact with Lord Rippingdale and his Majesty. [11]
Karataev had no attachments, friendships, or love, as Pierre understood them, but loved and lived affectionately with everything life brought him in contact with, particularly with man--not any particular man, but those with whom he happened to be. [2]

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